Invited Lecture at ECR 2024 “Digital Twin for Healthcare”

Together with colleagues Prof. Valeria Panebianco, Dr. Ilenia Rapisarda (from Italy) and Dr Andrew Vickers (from USA), Prof. Huan Nguyen delivered a lecture and discussed if, when and how radiology will meet digital twin in the panel “The Radiologist of the Future: Connecting the Digital Twins and the Human Being” at the European Congress of Radiology 2024 in Vienna, Austria, the most prominent event for radiology in Europe, attracting 18,000+ radiology professionals and researchers around the world.

Prof. Nguyen delivered a lecture on DT for Healthcare at the ECR’24
From left: Dr Andrew Vickers (USA), Prof. Valeria Panebianco (Italy), Prof. Huan Nguyen (UK), and Dr. Ilenia Rapisarda (Italy)

Digital Twin benefits and topics discussed include: personalised care and personalised medicine, predictive analytics with actionable insights for patient treatment, accurate data and faster image interpretation for precision medicine, real-time monitoring and modification of interventions, virtual training and familiarisation of medical facilities and environment,  modelling in healthcare, ethical issues and considerations.